Functional Biopolymers for Tissue Engineering
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 6
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomanufacturing; on‑demand fabrication; bioreactors; AI‑driven tissue engineering; decellularized ECM
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Interests: polymeric materials; biomaterials; tissue engineering; wound healing; drug delivery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue on “Functional Biopolymers for Tissue Engineering.” Functional biopolymers are central to the development of next-generation scaffolds, bioinks, and implantable devices that aim to restore, replace, or augment damaged tissues. Recent advances in polymer chemistry, additive manufacturing, bioreactor design, and computational modelling (including machine learning) are accelerating the translation of engineered tissues toward clinical applications. This Special Issue seeks high-quality articles that address fundamental science, enabling technologies, characterisation methods, and translational strategies involving functional biopolymers.
This Special Issue aims to provide a focused collection of original research, reviews, and technical contributions that advance the design, fabrication, characterisation, and clinical translation of functional biopolymers for tissue engineering. Topics span from biomaterial synthesis and microarchitecture to biomanufacturing scale-up, mechanobiology, immunomodulation, and AI-enabled design/characterisation. The scope aligns with Polymers’ mission to publish interdisciplinary work that bridges materials science, bioengineering, and translational medicine.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Autonomous and Distributed Biomanufacturing: On‑demand polymers and edge fabrication.
- Polymeric-based Bioreactors: Adaptive, self‑regulating perfusion systems.
- Polymeric-based programmable microenvironments and synthetic morphogenesis
- Machine learning and AI applied to tissue engineering.
- Functional polymeric inks and multi‑scale biofabrication.
- Decellularised ECM and natural matrices.
- Circular and carbon‑neutral biomaterials for tissue engineering.
- Electro‑bio interfaces and bioelectronics‑integrated scaffolds.
Dr. Carla Moura
Dr. Paula Ferreira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomanufacturing
- on‑demand fabrication
- bioreactors
- programmable microenvironments
- synthetic morphogenesis
- AI‑driven tissue engineering
- functional polymeric inks
- decellularized ECM
- electro‑bio interfaces
- bioelectronics
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